Jayasuriya back on presidential orders

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SANATH JAYASURIYA, Sri Lanka’s most capped player and highest scoring batsman, is on his way to England to play in the second Test match at Edgbaston starting on Thursday week, only a few weeks after announcing his retirement from Test cricket. Officially, the summons came from Ashantha de Mel, the new chairman of selectors; actually, according to Sidath Wettimuny, a Sri Lanka cricket hero after a conversation with Jayasuriya, it came from no less a personage than Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Sri Lanka president.

Each country is entitled to its own way of doing things but to an Englishman this seems